Originally Posted by WereBear

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I think that's a classic case of profit interfering with good sense. It would be one thing if SSRIs worked great! But they don't. I took three different kinds of anxiety medication which didn't work and had tortuous ramp-ups and taper-offs, besides. I've also read accounts that they are only meant for short-term but they sure don't prescribe them that way.

It's like the enormous difference between artificial and bio-identical hormones that I use to manage my highly problematical menopause. The doctors kept telling me there wasn't any difference. But they were wrong.